Reznjun

gotta dust off my pow wow outfit and hit the road. i have been busy going to ceremonies and working in my garden for the past week and a half.  having to be a good guy that long means i need a break. i aint even gambled any. so i am heading to the sisseton pow wow. that should be a big one. they got like 125 thou in prize money. that kind of money will draw good singers and dancers. i will do some taping for sure. some of our homeboys are singing with one of the host drums. some of our people are heading up that way. i have a sister in law that lives there. i probably will meet someone i know. this injun has been off the farm a few times. i will camp out since i love to camp.

they will have fireworks there too. back when we were poor ass injuns we always had fireworks and eats. even when the entire tribal operations fit in a tin shed. now the tribe is worth millions and we aint got the money for such frivolous things. gotta save our money for trips. its like yeah its your money but you cant have any of it. we saving it so we can tell your grand kids they cant have any of it either.

on the way up there i will pass where i went to parochial boarding school in nebraska. shudder… i criss crossed this country many times and always avoided that place. once my mother was with me on a trip. we went to where she went to boarding school in south dakota. we headed south and she said to go see the place. i said aint no way in hell. she gave me a look that mothers have when you know you aint winning this argument. so we went. which was a good thing i suppose. i laid a few demons to rest. had to be there in a place i hated.  i seen it was just a place. i got over some things, but i will never forget how the priests and nuns beat us for nothing. ended up that i finally wrote that chapter in my book. for a long time i didnt want to relive that part of my life.

i looked the place up on the net. it has a website. it has a category for alumni. i checked it out since i havent run across very many i went to school with.  i met a few doing time while i was a spiritual advisor to several prisons. when i was on the first longest walk i heard there were a coupla there also but i didnt meet them. i heard others met  violent deaths. the website have a questionaire. one question asked if your experience was “positive, neutral or negative”. damn…..i had to write an entire chapter on my experience. wasnt just one word for it.

i am still picking vegetables. when i went after mail, i brought back an armful of cucumbers and zuchinni. will take the cukes on my trip. yesterday i pulled a few carrots. they are still young and tender. the hard work i put into that garden is paying off. the weather guy said it may rain tonite. that will make everything have a burst of growth. my rain barrels should fill up. i will water my plants with that.

tonight i am going to an auction. like i dont have enough junk. i probably need to have a garage sale to get rid of some of that stuff. then i can have room for more junk. auctions are a better deal than garage sales. you can actually get something of value at a reasonable price. might have to buy a box full of junk thought to get it. and there is a certain amount of sport in auctions. real drama in whether or not you get the bid. i cuss myself sometimes for not bidding and seeing something i wanted go real cheap. i have bought entire boxes for a buck.

gotta get busy. been jacking around on computer. things need to get done before i hit da road…..